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Originally Posted by fugazifan
i thought that only jewish preists (cohanim) cant go to a cemetary. bt its been a while since i studied any kind of religioustext or whatnot.
im hoping this coming school year to take a course in the new testament.
btw, unfortunatly for everyone there are no more red heifers in the world. because then you could do anything you wanted and then get purified by their ashes. am i correct? it really has been a while since i studied all of this stuff....
and happy rasta day. i know thick girl who works at the local video store that really wants to go to ethiopia. so i was able to talk with her about it using all the useful info that you have posted here...
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Cemetaries make anyone ritualistically unclean, as do the three things I had mentioned, but you are partially correct regarding the ritual cleaning. Of course, in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the purity is regained through prayer and fasting because of the shed blood of Jesus Christ, and the temporary ritual impurity of menstruation, contact with dead folks, or sexual relations prohibits entrance into the Church sanctuary and in particular approaching the Altar to receive the Eucharist. The Nazirite Vow is just an extreme avoidance of the ritual impurity of contact with dead folks.
The Ethiopian Orthodox faith is
Johannine intepretation of Christianity, with a focus on the Gospel and Epistles of John, their related commentaries, and in particular the Old Testament, as compared to Roman and Western Pauline Christianity, which focuses almost exclusively on the New Testament writings, almost attempting to void the Old, as if it were possible. Ethiopian Orthodox is a syncretic blend of the two, as we revere Paul as much as John the Apostle.